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Hey&hellip;I Miss You!<br>
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March 10, 2010 by Susan<br>
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Please update your links and join the fun over at my new
place!&nbsp; Click on the link below<br>
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A Slice Of My Life<br>
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http://asliceofmylife.com/<br>
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It&rsquo;s Moving Day!<br>
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January 1, 2010 by Susan<br>
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I&rsquo;m still unpacking and trying to figure out where to put
things, but won&rsquo;t you please join me at my brand new site? If
you are an email subscriber (Hi Barrie!!!)&nbsp; then
you&rsquo;ll need to come to the new site and re-enter your email
address.&nbsp; Sorry for the hassle!&nbsp; Click on over!!!<br>
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&nbsp;A Slice of My Life<br>
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Trying Something New<br>
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December 29, 2009 by Susan<br>
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About a thousand years ago, I took a CIS 101 class (computer
information systems).&nbsp; Computers were fairly new to the
general populace and I felt that I needed to be prepared for the Bold
New World ahead of me.&nbsp; (Besides, it was a required class)<br>
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Our first assignment was to write a &ldquo;Hello World&rdquo;
program in GW Basic.&nbsp; I remember following the instructions we
were given and everything worked out exactly like it was supposed
to.&nbsp; Then I lifted my head and looked around at my
classmates.&nbsp; None of them had yet managed to even come close
to completing the assignment. <br>
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Obviously, I had done something horribly wrong.&nbsp; So I deleted
what I had done and did it again&hellip;and again&hellip;and
again.&nbsp; Somehow I always managed to come up with that same
silly solution.&nbsp; Finally, the instructor saved me from myself
when he&nbsp; strolled by and told me that he was impressed with my
grasp of the subject. <br>
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It didn&rsquo;t take long to realize that my understanding of
computer programming (not to mention computers in general)
didn&rsquo;t go much beyond that one simple bit of code.&nbsp;
Indeed, it was all downhill from there.&nbsp; Fortunately for me, I
married a man that lives and breaths computers and haven&rsquo;t
had to worry about it since. <br>
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When I first entered the blog world, I was on my own.&nbsp;
Fortunately, hosted blogs are fairly easy to to tweak.&nbsp; For
the most part, you don&rsquo;t have to know an ounce of programming
to use one.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve been very happy in my sheltered
little cocoon of a blog.&nbsp; All of that changed a couple days
before Christmas when Shaun presented me with my very own domain name
and a place to host it. He even moved most of my content over to the
new website. <br>
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Now,&nbsp; it would be simple enough to just leave things as they
were, but somehow that just seemed wrong.&nbsp; After
all,&nbsp; the whole point of switching to a self-hosted site is so
that you would have total control of what your blog does and looks
like. <br>
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So, armed with a stack of books and online tutorials I set about
creating a place that I could happily call home.&nbsp; Despite the
fact that everything I read boasted about how easy it was to use this
software&hellip;it made my eyes glaze over and my head
ache.&nbsp; My brain spun with terms like SEO, widgets, domain
mapping, plugins, FTP, php coding, parameters&hellip; I soon
realized that I needed to find a prequel to the WordPress for Dummies
book. <br>
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When the first template I was trying to tweak kept breaking, it seemed
only natural to go to my own personal Computer Guru and beg him to just
do it&nbsp; for some assistance.&nbsp;&nbsp; Shaun merely
laughed and told me he only knew how to write code in C++ and C#.
(Because I totally know what those are and totally believe he
can&rsquo;t figure anything else out in two minutes or
less.&nbsp; I get the feeling he&rsquo;s practicing some Tough
Love on me.)&nbsp; So&hellip;I&rsquo;m still struggling to
figure this thing out out on my own.<br>
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I plan on making the Grand Reveal on New Year&rsquo;s
Day.&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t promise anything
spectacular.&nbsp;&nbsp; In fact, I don&rsquo;t promise
anything at all!&nbsp;&nbsp; However, if things go as
planned,&nbsp; I hope to welcome you all to my new little home on
the web.<br>
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I hope you will join me&hellip;<br>
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